Good morning, myeloma world.

It truly was a dark and stormy night when we sat down early yesterday to start writing the next edition of Myeloma Morning. A spring windstorm was howling about outside and, before we knew it, the wily gusts had conspired to knock out electricity at Myeloma Morning Headquarters.

Fortunately, the watts and volts are back in working order, and we're glad to be writing for you again.

All the news we cover in today's Myeloma Morning concerns recently published research studies.

One study by …

Results of a recent observational study show that all known molecular subtypes of multiple myeloma are already present at the early, smol­der­ing myeloma and monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance stages of the disease.

According to the investigators, these findings indicate that the various molecular subtypes of myeloma, which have different genetic char­ac­ter­istics, are es­tab­lished early in the course of the disease.

The researchers defined the different molecular subtypes of myeloma they investigated based on a method called gene ex­pres­sion profiling. Using this method, they found that one subtype in particular was as­soc­i­ated …